“Have you ever identified more with female characters than male ones?”

It’s time for yet another post full of examples of how trans people online use stereotypes as the basis of deciding to be trans. It’s interesting to see that even though proponents of gender identity publicly stress that gender identity has nothing to do with gender stereotypes, when trans people talk among themselves online, their narratives are usually absolutely steeped with the most egregious stereotypes. There is a huge mismatch between the official gender identity doctrine and what trans people tell themselves about their gender identities. Let’s have a look.

First, a person who, upon transitioning to female, finds themselves fitting “nice and snug in a submissive role”.

Note first that this commenter doesn’t want to “act like a woman”. it is not explained what acting what a woman is, but it implies that there is some way that women acts, and that in order to avoid acting this way, you need to become a man. Choosing to not act this way is apparently not an option.

Finally, pay attention to the statement in this screenshot that the outside should “match” the inside. So there are apparently certain “insides” (personalities, presumably), that only match certain bodies. This is not a particularly progressive idea; the thought that only men or only women can have certain personality types is usually regarded as old-fashioned and regressive. But when trans people say it, nobody dares disagree apparently.

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Looking back, it is really obvious. I hated gender stereotypes. I wasn’t submissive. I volunteered to play boys in theatre plays. Only wore dresses very rarely.

And yet, I was in my late twenties when I finally figured out that I am …

… a radical feminist!

I wonder why Mr. “nice and snug in a submissive role” didn’t just try leading an equal relationship. Or being in a submissive role with a female partner. (I guess he’s with a male now, as he mentions being in a relationship. I wouldn’t want to be with a man who thinks woman=submissive.)

Thank you so much for your site. In Fort Worth, TX, the ‘trans-train’ has come to town, in the form of “Guidelines” Many of the posts from this site have been sent to one member of the Board of Education (they were not given the chance to vote on the Guidelines).

I will be sending more.

Again. I can’t thank you enough. I’ve been reading since July of last year.

The idea that humans can only identify with a character that is extremely similar in age, sex, race gave us the eternally awful Wesley Crusher.

Gene Roddenberry said he created Wesley for the young fans to have a character to identify with. But his mistake was not recognizing that he had already created characters young people identified with – and loved – Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, etc. Sadly, his attempt to create the 5th -(and Russian) – Beatle in the form of Checkov didn’t clue him into what a mistake that was. I watched Star Trek because it helped me imagine myself in a world different from that of an unpopular middle school geek.

If we can only identify with characters that match our physical characteristics, how is it that trans people identify with the opposite sex?